Improvement in billiard-cushions



To" all whom Vtt may concern:

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@anni @titille tiid gieten lJOHNnEIIItIIIEN, or ccIIcAco, ILLINOIS.

l Letters Patent No. 104,542,dctezl Junel, 1870.

I IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD-CUSHIONS.

i `The Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

" Be it known that I, JOHN BERLIEN, ofGhicago,

in the county of (look and State .of Illinois, `have invented kcertain Improvements `in Billiard-`Cushions, of

which the followingis4 a specitication, reference being Y had Itothe accompanying drawing.

My present iuventiourelates to certain improve- I 'ments upon the lbilliard-cushion, for which Letters Iat- I ent of the United States were granted to me February? 1, 1870, No. 99,393; and I I It consists, principally, in the use, in connection l with the steel springdescribedtherein, of it peculiarly shaped rubber cushion or coveringover the same.

'Figure 1 isa perspective view of a` section of the rim of` a table having my improved cushion applied;

Figure 2 isy a cross-sectiolllot' thel rubber cushion The lim A of the table construct in the usual manner, with the cleatB attached to it,Iand the lower l front edge of the cleatI cut away to. receivethe lower edge of the steel spring D,.witl1. its strengthening strips a, whiclrare securedrigidl y to the cleat, as shown,

line with its upper edge. y

Between tbesteel and the cleat, to the Vlower front free to yield under the impactof the ball, striking in The space between the eleatand steel I ill with wool, hair, cotton, or similar material, as shown at c,

iig. 1, to aid in deadenng the Ametallic sound of the steel when the ball strikes .the cushion.

I next provide a cast-rubber strip or cushion, E, the

cross-section of' which resembles in its general outline thev Arabic numeral 7, the exact form 'of which is,

1 .the usual manner, as shown in iig. 1. Ibeing in, the same manner as in my previous patent, j so as to leave the `upright inclined portion oi the steel 'stautially as set forth.

` however, clearly shown in iig. 2; this rubber-I fit over the spring' and cleat, as shown in iig. 1, cernenting its depending portion to the front side of the rubber-cloth covering ofthe steel'and the edge of its upper portion into a recess made for the purpose in the upper' iont edge 'of cleat B. i

The front side cf this rubber strip is made of about one-fourth of an inch in thickness at V,the top, but ot' decreasing thickness toward the lower side, where.l it is .brought toa thin edge, as-shown, and tbe rubber is so shaped thatit-s front edge, against which the .ball iinpiuges, is in the same horizontal plane as the upper edge ofthe steel spring D, the rubber being formed with a groove, n., into -which the edge of the steelfits, as shown.l

' I I next secure the edge ot' a sheet `of muslin, g, to

the under side of the cleat B, and/draw it snugly up over the rubber, and cement its edge to the top of the cleat, and over this muslin I stretch the usual green covering cloth h, and securev its lower edge to the und'er side of the cleat, and itsupper edge to the top of the cleat, by means ot a strip set into a groove in When thus constructed, the steel spring gives the required stiliness andelasticity to the cushion, and maintains the rubber facing in a perfectly true line, while the` rubber serves principally to deaden the metallic sound and prevent t-he edge of the steel from cutting through the covering, although it, as a matter of course, adds somewhat to the elasticity of the cushion.

Having thus described my invention,

The combination of the steel spring D and the rubb'er cushion E, when constructed and arranged sub- JOHN BERLIEN.

Witnesses i F. BLUMENIIAGEN, WM. H. Lo'rz. 

